[Pdns-users] PowerDNS cannot bind - address family problem --

[Stefan Schmidt]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:23 PM, kim Doff <kimdoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,

Hello,

> My PowerDNS cannot bind
> Logs
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: Guardian is launching an instance
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: UDP server bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:53
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: UDP server bound to 127.0.0.1:53
> Jul 20 17:35:41 ns1 pdns[1308]: Fatal error: Unable to acquire a UDPv6
> socket:
> Address family not supported by protocol
> Jul 20 17:35:42 ns1 pdns[1218]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1
>
> root at ns1:~# ifconfig -a lo
> lo        Link encap:Boucle locale
>           inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:10124424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:10124424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
>           RX bytes:2553866141 (2.3 GiB)  TX bytes:2553866141 (2.3 GiB)
> No Ipv6 is set...
>
> How can I disable ipv6?

Am i assuming correctly that in your pdns.conf there is a like like
the following?
local-ipv6=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:53
commenting it out will make PowerDNS not try to bind to it.

 Stefan